Combat Knife
Combat knife designed for close combat engagements, can attack while sprinting. Best in class at harvesting flesh.
Damage
- Damage
- 35
- Slash + Stab
- DPS
- 50
- before reload
- Swings a minute
- 86
- rounds a minute
- Reach
- 1.5 m
3 hits to kill a 100 HP player, 1.40 s to kill. Chest hits, point blank, no armour.
- Throw
- 50 · 30 m/s
- Head
- 70 (highest)
- ×2, 2 hits
- Chest
- 35
- ×1, 3 hits
- Stomach
- 35
- ×1, 3 hits
- Arm
- 35
- ×1, 3 hits
- Leg
- 26.25
- ×0.75, 4 hits
Damage to buildings
| Wall grade | Per hit | Hits to break |
|---|---|---|
 Twig | 7 | 2 |
 Wood | 5.25 | 48 |
 Stone | 1.225 | 409 |
 Sheet Metal | 0.525 | 1,905 |
 Armored | 0.525 | 3,810 |
Hits to break a wall of each grade from the soft (inside) face. Guns count as rounds. The hard face takes more. All building blocks
Craft
| Workbench | Craft time | Blueprint |
|---|---|---|
 Level 1 | 15s | 30 scrap to research |
Ingredients and the blueprint steps are on the Craft tab.
Looted from
| Container | Chance |
|---|---|
| 2.5% | |
| 1.6% | |
| 1.1% | |
| 0.4% | |
| 0.4% | |
Deep Sea ScientistSame loot in: Oil Rig Scientist | 0.2% |
| 0.2% | |
| 0.2% |
| Monument | Per full clear | Crates |
|---|---|---|
| 0.2 | 8 Tool Crate17 Crate | |
| 0.1 | 4 Tool Crate14 Crate | |
| 0.1 | 16 Crate2 Tool Crate | |
| under 0.1 | 13 Crate2 Tool Crate | |
| under 0.1 | 16 Crate1 Tool Crate |
What opening every crate and barrel there once gives, on average.
Methodology
Best places to find it. Worked out from loot tables tested in game. A crate that has not been tested yet is left out, so a monument can give more than shown.
Crafting
| Blueprint | What it takes | Scrap |
|---|---|---|
| 30 | ||
| Unlocks nexton the tech tree | ||
Recycling
| Recycler | Always | Chance of one more |
|---|---|---|
 Power Plant75% | ||
 Monument (powered)60% | ||
| Monument50% | ||
 Safe zone40% |
One item at full condition. Scrap is an average: the part after the point carries over to the next item.
Wearing it
Survival
Farming & fishing
Tools & durability
What it farms
| Target | You get | Hits | Times | Tool lasts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animals | ||||
| 8 | 5.6 | No wear | ||
| 7 | 4.9 | No wear | ||
| 7 | 4.9 | No wear | ||
| 10 | 7.0 | No wear | ||
| 6 | 4.2 | No wear | ||
| 8 | 5.6 | No wear | ||
Each row is one full target, with the bonus the last hit adds. Gathering teas add to it. Hits assume you never hit the bonus marker. Compare every tool.
The Combat Knife also skins 9 more animals and the bodies of 26 kinds of NPC
Animals: Bull, Cow, Crocodile, Horse, Panther, Shark, Sheep, Snake, Tiger.NPCs: Arctic Scientist, Bandit Camp Guard, Cargo Ship Scientist, Dive Master, Excavator Scientist, Fisherman, Heavy Scientist, Heavy Scientist With Flamethrower, Heavy Scientist With Minigun, Hunter, Lumberjack, Military Base Scientist, Military Tunnel Scientist, Miner, Naval Scientist, Newman, NVG Scientist, Outbreak Scientist, Outpost Scientist, Patrol Scientist, PT Boat Scientist, RHIB Scientist, Stablehand, Tunnel Dweller, Underwater Dweller, Vagabond. Each page says what its body gives.
| Bench | Max repair cost | Condition loss | Blueprint needed | Repairs until destroyed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20% | Yes | 14 |
A half-worn item costs about half and loses half as much.
Electrical & stations
Vehicles & mounts
Details
Methodology
Tested in game: we gave the Combat Knife to a player on our own server and used it on every animal in the table above until it was empty, three times each, and counted the hits, the wear and every item it handed out. Time is the hits times the swing time. Tested on the current version of Rust.
More Weapons
Skins
1Apply with the Repair Bench. Prices are Steam Market USD.
Loading skins
- Throw damage
- 12 (base 50)
- Throw speed
- 20 m/s (base 30 m/s)
Combat Knife: common questions
- How much damage does Combat Knife do?
- Combat Knife deals 35 damage per swing and swings 86 times per minute.
- Where do you find Combat Knife?
- Craft it at workbench level 1. It drops from Tool Box (2.5%), Underwater Crate (Basic) (1.6%) and Underwater Crate (Advanced) (1.1%), plus 5 more. The most from one full clear: Airfield (0.2), Ferry Terminal (0.1) and Missile Silo (0.1).
- What does Combat Knife cost to craft?
- Combat Knife crafts for 25 Metal Fragments, 1 High Quality Metal.
- What does Combat Knife recycle for?
- Recycling Combat Knife at a powered monument recycler (60%) returns 15 Metal Fragments, High Quality Metal (60%). Safe-zone recyclers pay 40%; the Power Plant red recycler pays 75%.